Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Shoot 'n' loot your way through a brand new adventure that rockets you onto Pandora's moon in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. Discover the story behind Borderlands 2’s villain, Handsome Jack, and his rise to…
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is a role-playing (rpg) developed by 2K Australia, released 14 October 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. It currently starts at $3.39 at Fanatical. The main story takes about 29.8 hrs to finish.
What Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by 2K Australia and released in 2014. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Android, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The opening of The Pre-Sequel begins some time after the events of Borderlands 2, and immediately after Episode 3 of the subsequent game Tales from the Borderlands, on the flying city of Sanctuary, where the three former Vault Hunters Lilith, Brick, and Mordecai interrogate the ex-Atlas assassin Athena after having captured her. Athena recounts her story, starting after the death of General Knoxx, when she received an offer to go find a Vault on Pandora's moon, Elpis, from a Hyperion programmer named Jack. She joins fellow Vault Hunters Claptrap, Nisha, Wilhelm, Timothy, and Aurelia on a spaceship headed for the Hyperion moon base Helios. On the way, they are ambushed by the Lost Legion, an…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, open world and science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online, and includes co-op. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 63 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Borderlands series
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is the 27th of 70 entries we hold in the Borderlands series. The next entry was Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel - Handsome Jack Doppelganger in 2014. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Borderlands 2: Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate's Booty at 90.
How it was received
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 431 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 29.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 61.4 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $3.39, that works out to about $0.11 per hour of the main story, or $0.06 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor, 2048 MB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8500 / ATI Radeon HD 2600. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 13GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.39 at Fanatical, 92% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel launched on 14 October 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation and Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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